Video capsule/Wireless Capsule Endoscopy.

A method to monitoring gastrointestinal diseases, a new type of video-telemetry capsule that is swallowed and journeys down the gastrointestinal tract while transmitting images . As such, the capsule, 11 mm in diameter and 30 mm long, i.e. about the size of a pill, provides a kind of inside view at a rate of two frames per second. Its video images are transmitted using UHF-band telemetry to aerials taped to the body.

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